PENSACOLA
1859 - USS PENSACOLA (Training Ship)
March 3, 1857 - Authorized by Congress, April 6, 1858 - Contract let to Messrs Dickerson and Sickels, August 15, 1859 - Launched at the Warrington Navy Yard near Pensacola, Florida, December 5, 1859 - Commissioned (Sponsor: Miss Margaret Mallory), December 21, 1859 - Sailed from Pensacola to Washington Navy Yard for machinery installation, September 16, 1861 - Commissioned in full, December 27, 1861 - River trials with President Lincoln and Commodore Dahlgren embarked, January 11, 1862 - Sea trials, January 24, 1862 - Anchored at Hampton Roads, Virginia, February 3, 1862 - Ran aground on Ledbury Reef, February 11, 1862 - Arrived at Key West, Florida, March 1, 1862 - Arrived at Ship Island, Mississippi, March 24, 1862 - Arrived off the Southwest Passes of the Mississippi River
April 24, 1862: Passing of the forts below New Orleans on the Mississippi River, April 25, 1862 - Anchored in front of New Orleans, April 27, 1862 - Commenced operations as station ship at New Orleans, April 7, 1864 - Departed New Orleans for Hampton Roads via Pensacola, April 29, 1864 - Decommissioned for installation of new machinery at New York Navy Yard, August 16, 1866 - Recommissioned and sailed for duty with the Pacific Squadron, January 27, 1875 - Cruise to Hawaii carrying King Kalakaua, July 12, 1883 -Departed Callao, Peru on an around the world cruise, May 5, 1884 - Arrived at Hampton Roads, Virginia, May 23, 1884 – Decommissioned, April 4, 1885 - Recommissioned under the command of Captain George Dewey, March 7, 1888 - Dewey relieved, March 24, 1888 - Remains of General Jose Antonio Paez transported to Venezuela, October 16, 1889 - Departed Brooklyn for solar eclipse expedition, December 8, 1889 - Anchored at Cape Ledo, Angola for observation of eclipse to occur on December 22, 1889, May 23, 1890 - Returned to New York, August 1890 - Sailed for duty in the Pacific, August 10, 1891 - Arrived in San Francisco, April 18, 1892 – Decommissioned, November 22, 1898 - Recommissioned as a training ship at Goat Island (later called Yerba Buena Island) near San Francisco, May 31, 1899 – Decommissioned, July 14, 1901 - Recommissioned as a receiving ship at Goat Island, December 6, 1911 - Final decommissioning, December 23, 1911 - Stricken from the Naval Register, May 1912 - Burned and sunk near Hunter’s Point in San Francisco Bay.
Research and items courtesy of Glenn Smith.
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Postal card from Columbia dated 1883
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Postal card from Columbia dated 1883
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Postcard shows apprentice seamen returning from a "cruise" aboard USTS PENSACOLA.
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